Browsing Tag

march2016

  • INDONESIA

    Sexy road

    The road from Jakarta to the south coast of Java was sexy but hard. I haven't ridden on a such a bad surface since Tajikistan, my 2.5" touring tires were occasionally…

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  • INDONESIA

    Necessities of life

    In the end of my second riding day in Java I was having a dinner at a road side restaurant, when a massive storm rolled in. Restaurant keeper offered me a…

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  • INDONESIA

    Jakarta, Jakarta

    Java, are you kidding me? I rode through a 100km traffic jam, in a pouring rain. It's 100km line of cars and motorbikes I tell you. Stuff coming out from my…

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  • INDONESIA

    The mystery connection

    It took me nearly two weeks to find out when the Batam-Jakarta ferry goes and how could I buy a ticket for it. Three friends if main were coming to Bali…

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  • INDONESIA

    Fight fire with hospitality

    Country number 32 and the last Asian country on my way: Indonesia. Island of Batam, located close to Singapore, greeted me with crazy traffic and steep hills, but also with great…

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  • SINGAPORE

    Playing drums in a sky scraper

    Singapore is in some ways very similar to Helsinki; well organized, rather expensive, clean and full of parks. It was also the most Western influenced county I have been for over…

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  • SINGAPORE

    30 000km across the first two

    🇲🇾 #30000km #Eurasia #biketouring #Malaysia #March2016 I do have a bad habit of not celebrating any mile stones on my trip. Days and countries just roll by. When I arrived to Johor…

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  • MALAYSIA

    The purpose of it all

    At my previous work as a researcher deforestation was a regular topic as it had an significant impact on the carbon footprint of some products we were doing the environmental assessment…

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